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Details
- Other Titles
- Bark painting
Spathe painting (Two faces) - Place where the work was made
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Ambunti Mountains (Washkuk Hills)
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East Sepik Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Kwoma people
- Date
- mid 20th century
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- sago palm petiole, white, yellow and red earth pigments on black ground
- Dimensions
- 125.0 x 32.0 cm overall
- Credit
- Purchased 1963
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA6.1963
- Copyright
- © Kwoma people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
- Artist information
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Kwoma people
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Auction sale of primitive art of Australia, New Guinea, Africa - and a small armoury, Geoff K. Gray Pty. Ltd., Sydney, 17 Sep 1963–18 Sep 1963
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1963 Acquisitions, Sydney, 1963, 76. cat.no. 170
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Christian Kaufmann, Planters and artists: the roles of leading members of the Kwoma in Papua New Guinea, Göttingen, 1972. For general information about the Kwoma people of the Waskuk Hills.
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 46. cat.no. 93
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